A Bakery Is Profiting From 'Cupcakegate' With The First-Ever TSA-Approved Cupcake

A bakery in Providence, R.I. has take the recent TSA scandal, dubbed Cupcakegate, and turned it into a clever marketing scheme.

The saga began last December when airport security confiscated a cupcake in a 8-ounce jar at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

Although regular frosted baked goods aren't seen as a national security threat, the packaged cake had a thick layer of icing that violated that administration's 3-ounce carry-on limit for liquids, gels and aerosols, according to a post on the official TSA blog.

The kerfuffle prompted Kelly Colgan, the owner of Silver Spoon Bakery, to whip up a TSA Compliant Cupcake — a basic vanilla cupcake that comes with exactly three ounces of frosting in a quart-size plastic bag, according to Time's Samantha Grossman.

The cupcakes are accompanied by a TSA boarding pass and an optional decorative picture of Richard Nixon that reads "I am not a gel."